Your Car: A Magazine of Romance, Fact and Fiction
(Two issues in their entirety)
Your Car: A Magazine of Romance, Fact and Fiction. A Bernarr Macfadden Publication. Pub monthly by Constructive Publishing Corp., Jamaica, New York for 6 months -- May 1925 - Oct. 1925 -- then ceased. Subscription $2.00/year. Contains fiction capitalizing on car fantasies, as well as articles, pictorial features, ads. The first 2 issues, May and June 1925, are here in their entirety.
(NOTES: Automobile, Bernarr Macfadden, Leisure)
May 1925 (Vol. 1, No. 1) (100 p.)
Highlights include:
- Editorial by publisher Bernarr Macfadden, "The Road to Romance," (p. 5) explaining
- the magazine's emphasis on automobile fantasies.
Stories
- "Her Handsome Chauffeur" (p. 19)
- "A Second-Hand Ford Saved My Marriage" (p. 48, finishes in next issue)
- And a mystery short story by Agatha Christie (p. 44)
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Articles
- "Are Most Garagemen Honest?" (p. 13)
- "How Henry Ford Made a Man of Me" (p. 42) by an "ex-criminal"
- "Driving a Car on Nothing a Year" (p. 54)
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Photo Features
- "Stars [movie and stage] and their Cars" (p. 22)
- "Spring Styles for Women Motorists" (p. 18)
- "The Motor Car on the Western Ranches" (p. 60)
- An illustrated feature on car parts and accessories (p. 83)
June 1925 (Vol. 1, No. 2) (100 p.)
Highlights include:
- Editorial by Macfadden on the car and wholesome recreation (p. 5)
Articles
- "Stage, Screen and Cars" (p. 18)
- "Go Back to Nature - Your Car Will Take You There" -- on motor camping and health (p. 44)
- "The Public Is Always Right" -- what purports to be a 1st-person article by the head of an auto service station (p. 50)
- Fashion Section on what to wear to the beach after you get there in your car (p. 27)
Stories:
- "Motorizing Grandma" (p. 30)
- "She Learned to Drive a Car -- A true story of how this woman found health through her automobile" (p. 13)
- "Confessions of an Automobile Thief" (p. 34)
- Pictorial: "The New Buicks" (p. 17)
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